Baseline

Hello,

So far for the past several years since blogs have been developed i have resisted the urge to get involved in one. Today i came to a realization that has pushed me past my previous prejudices to begin "Everything is Numbers". I'll get to today's occurrence but first let me explain the name.

I, like several left minded individuals, am over analytical about every facet of life. Yet, I feel like part of my brain is constantly running an objective function for which the objective is changing with context. Language is nothing but a set of conversion factors used to make our interpersonal "units" equal. I can take any physical problem and (in my head) immediately begin defining boundary conditions for a computational partial differential equation solver to solve. As i let my mind drift into technical obscurity when problem solving, i try to simultaneously run an objective function to judge how accurate the solution should be based on feed forward estimations and feed back solution quality control.

To the right minded readers the above existence may seem like hell. In fact for me it is quite the opposite. I thrive on complex problems that require high powered computational solvers. That is why my blog is called everything is numbers. Because when "I" break things down to the core, that's all there is.

Now to explain why i have crossed into the blog world. For the last 6 months my workplace has been non-stop Chaos. Starting in March with massive company wide downsizing and "reorganization". When the smoke cleared i was still employed but with twice the work load in a company that now didn't know which way was up because of how wide spread the layoffs were. I found this revitalizing. Old stigmas could be broken, common practices could be questioned, in a way after 6 months my company is heading in a much better direction because of it.

Soon after, but way before we knew what we were doing, a huge fire broke out in one area of the facility. It damaged millions of dollars in equipment. The end result of the fire was we had to dramatically change the way we operated just to stay afloat. The ensuing chaos was amazing. I was on the forefront of this operational transition and loving every second of it. My areas were the one of the most effected by this new mode of operation and my name was attached to all the hot topics in front of management. I remember telling a co-worker a week before the layoffs that this place won't be the same for at least 6 months. Not only was i right but i didn't have the slightest clue how right i was.

Today 9.1.2009 is about 6 months since that conversation and it has finally hit me that things are back to "Normal". Oh but how i detest normal now. Being in the spotlight for so long has made me detest the day to day casual work. What made this apparent is that i actually had time (and the need) to go over my work list with my manager. Everything on the list now bores me to tears.

So i decided to begin writing here. Not only do i believe that servers are the most secure place to store stuff but maybe someone will read this and find it interesting. I plan to use this blog to keep track of how my struggle with technical chaos and the desperate need for it, but also to vocalize my opinions on how slow our "life automation" technology is developing.

I find it personally offensive that i have to enter my address hundreds of times into the different websites that keep that on record.

I think it's shameful of America that the Japanese can buy sodas from vending machines with cell phones while a majority of ours don't even take credit cards. Or even over the fact that cash still exists.

The executives at AT&T who drafted the exclusivity deal with Apple over the Iphone should be regarded as treasoners and executed.

The URL of this site is "Solve-it-once" for a reason. With all the worlds problems facing us and a declining average intelligence, it is important that those who can utilize their minds to solve them be freed to do so and stop wasting time re-inventing the wheel.